Rapture Quotes - page 3

A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture - calmness - God's serene and perpetual presence. (Frederick William Robertson)
RACHEL MADDOW: That‘s why we don‘t have to worry about the antichrist until after the rapture? View quote
Rachel Maddow
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. View quote
Clive Bell
Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care's best reposer, Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver. View quote
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me. View quote
Robert Burns
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. View quote
Mary Roach
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture. View quote
David Richo
O wonder beyond wonders, rapture, power, and amazement is it, that one can say nothing at all about the gospel, nor even conceive of it, nor compare it with anything. (Marcion of Sinope)
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. View quote
Jerry B. Jenkins
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. View quote
Sharon Shinn
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night. View quote
William Hazlitt
Sudden and near the trumpet's notes out-spread, And soon his eyes could see the metal flower, Shining upturned, out on the morning pour Its incense audible; could see a train From out the street slow-winding on the plain With lyres and cymbals, flutes and psalteries, While men, youths, maids, in concert sang to these With various throat, or in succession poured, Or in full volume mingled. But one word Ruled each recurrent rise and answering fall, As when the multitudes adoring call On some great name divine, their common soul, The common need, love, joy, that knits them in one whole. The word was "Jubal!"... "Jubal" filled the air, And seemed to ride aloft, a spirit there, Creator of the choir, the full-fraught strain That grateful rolled itself to him again. The aged man adust upon the bank - Whom no eye saw - at first with rapture drank The bliss of music, then, with swelling heart, Felt, this was his own being's greater part, The universal joy once born in him. View quote
George Eliot
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom. View quote
Thaddeus Stevens
With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight. View quote
Thomas Campbell
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! When I heard her thus speak, though my fear still clung about me, with trembling voice I made reply in Virgil's words - What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenance. View quote
Petrarch
Dear Lord! while we adoring pay Our humble thanks to Thee, May every heart with rapture say,- "The Saviour died for me!" View quote
Anne Steele
Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
I would count him blessed and holy to whom such rapture has been vouchsafed in this mortal life, for even an instant to lose thyself, as if thou wert emptied and lost and swallowed up in God, is no human love; it is celestial. (Bernard of Clairvaux)
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky - her grand old woods - her fertile fields - her beautiful rivers - her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Only straight discovering in the nearest stone or tree, sound or thought, the shelter of His often desecrated goodness, the treasury of His waiting form man's heart to affiliate with His will - this is the rapture of faith. It is an echo to a pleading voice, a reply to the inconceivable in all beauty. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Yet yield not to despair! be born again, And thou shalt live a life of joy and peace, Shall die a death of triumph, and thy strain Be changed to notes of rapture ne'er to cease. View quote
Francis Scott Key